Publications

These folks have been publishing reviews for around two decades, which makes them some of the first to grasp the Internet’s potential for theatre. In addition to New York City reviews, the site includes reviews for many major U.S. cities, along with London and other theatre hot spots. Also publishes books and CDs.

The magazine for not-for-profit theatre in the United States, and, really, covering the heart of the industry. Interviews, profiles, news. Plus they publish a play each issue. Though wholly available only by subscription, the site includes selected articles each month.

Career advice and casting information for actors: Casting notices, along with resources on college programs, acting coaches and schools, and photography, along with news, reviews, listings, a message board, blogs, and more. Full access to all listings requires a subscription. Notably, in a field where things may not appear what they seem, Backstage vets its callboard.

Australian performing arts publisher, with scripts and free articles for students, teachers, authors, and others in the industry. Site resources include a podcast, interviews with actors and playwrights, and speech transcripts.

Play publisher (and licenser) of a variety of authors, styles, and subjects. The site provides a search engine for finding the company’s plays by theme, author, and so on, and offers some production tools, such as music and photographs.

The Off-Off Broadway Review looks at plays that can be defined as: “an Equity showcase or non-union production of equivalent resources, being done in any of the New York boroughs.” Includes an internal search engine and links to other theatre sites.

A Project Muse publication: since 1976, PAJ has covered visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance) as well as new works in theatre, dance, film, and opera. Essays, interviews and dialogues, historical documentation, performance texts and plays, reports on performance abroad, and book reviews.

What can one say about Playbill? It’s the theatre industry’s magazine, particularly with an eye on Broadway. Everything’s here. News, of course, international in scope, plus tickets, features, a callboard, multimedia, and much more. Sadly, some time ago, Playbill absorbed the excellent Theatre Central site, which listed theatres and offered connections with other theatre professionals, and, for the time being, that feature is unavailable on Playbill’s site. Here’s hoping it returns in the near future.

The Big Kahuna of play publishers. Information on the company’s publications and authors, plus kind of a cool feature called “Now Playing” that shows where French’s plays currently are being produced. (The answer is: everywhere.)

Scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts. Emphasizes experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life. Which is to say: everything.

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